Among the many things I've learned from Twain: Maybe the most dependable heuristic for judging a person is who counts them as an enemy.
Dwayne Eutsey found, among the many revelations in the Epstein Files, that this epic shithead hated Mark Twain.
still the only explanation you need
There are moments I have flashes of anger just short of smashing things about this. We threw it away, we fucking chose to throw it away. And be 'we' I do mean the mass public, not just the crazies they voted for.
A large midday explosion rocked a Tehran square filled with demonstrators who were there for the annual Quds Day event in support of Palestinians, Iranian state television reported.
A large midday explosion rocked a Tehran square filled with demonstrators who were there for the annual Quds Day event in support of Palestinians, Iranian state television reported.
Israel literally just bombed a demonstration in Tehran.
apnews.com/article/iran...
Colorful squares arranged in a circle. Words by Maya Schenwar: In moments when you’re thinking, “Who the fuck am I?” Sometimes it’s helpful to counter with, “What the fuck am I doing?”
Black block lettering on chipboard: Fuck Shit Up! (By Amos Kennedy)
Protest sign: Fuck billionaires. I want libraries, schools, health care, roller rinks & ice cream for everyone.
Quote: I want people to ask themselves and each other what time it is on the clock of the world. —Grace Lee Boggs Image: Watercolor and sharpie: Colorful (aqua, pink, purple, green) clock face with words instead of hours: fuck, fuck me, fuck you, fuck this, fuck that, fuck America, fuck off, motherfucker, fuuuck, what the fuck, fucking hell, WTAF.
It’s fucking friday
I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper
This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
Funny little anecdote. (not really funny)
A lot of cities have parking requirements for bus stations. They literally will require a parking space for every 3 to 5 seats, or every couple hundred square feet of covered waiting area.
Makes building nice bus, terminals impossible in cities.
2% OF THE POPULATION ARE REPRESENTED IN 50% OF BROADCAST NETWORK DRAMAS
qz.com/1872176/half...
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
The killing of schoolchildren should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror. A nation whose leaders can so easily shrug off the death of children, no matter the cause, is in need of moral repair. There must be accountability and lessons learned from this tragedy. And we must never forget that Iranian children, too, are children of God. 7:08 PM · Mar 12, 2026 · 7,179 Views
Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator
Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.
How do you think this all ends, folks?
Nice catch from @mainenewsroom.com (also spotted by @jamesxmyall.bsky.social): A federal agent told Maine cops they were leaving the state -- because of weather -- a FULL WEEK before Susan Collins implied she was responsible for their exit.
Typical self-aggrandizing Collins maneuver. #MEpolitics
screenshot of three consecutive posts on Bluesky: Greg Pak thunder in brooklyn Susan Rinkunas thunder so loud in brooklyn that my cat just scurried so fast across the wood floor it sounded like tap shoes CHOAM: Spaceknight people are so mad Zohran Mamdani's wife is hot
Look the feed made a poem
The police made the first wave of arrests at the ASU encampment within 15 minutes of set-up and women had their hijabs ripped off. Now, years later, the Maricopa Co. attorney is attempting to kill local anti-SLAPP laws to dodge questions about the politically retaliatory charges against protesters.
We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.
Yall Giancarlo entered the chat
The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.
Something I've been trying to do lately is formulate my principles and beliefs in positive rather than negative terms - "I believe X" rather than "I'm not like those fucking guys" - and it's been a useful and (I think) healthy little reorientation
Letter: Thank you for Susan Collins for hearing my concerns
Bangor Daily News runs a fawning letter praising Susan Collins -- and recounting a meeting she granted the author -- from a person with the same name as the president of Turning Point USA's UMaine chapter.
No TPUSA in the signature line.
This is how the sausage (astroturf?) gets made. #MEpolitics
A step toward justice. In an undisclosed settlement, the multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis agreed to compensate Henrietta Lacks’ heirs for the billions in profits they reaped from her body.
wordinblack.com/2026/03/anot...
over half of Palantir's revenue comes from government contracts. hundreds of millions of OUR taxpayer dollars, every year, are spent subsidizing this man and his company.
Some background as well
Yall have to stop showing me these videos. I mean, I keep watching them. But I cannot communicate how sick and violence they make me feel. It’s physical.
Anyway they hate us and want us to die just because it would be mildly amusing between cocaine bumps.
Lmao he deleted the first post but left the rest of the stupid thread?
Fuck all the way off with this. The student protesters were physically attacked -- some of them maimed permanently with life-altering injuries -- and relentlessly persecuted, doxxed, and hounded by school administrators, local police, and federal authorities while their attackers remain untouched.
tbf it’s a stunningly bad post
The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.
They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!
Then LAPD pretty much bombed the place the next night to kick them out. Then UCLA wrecked the academic careers of many, surveilled students and capitulated heavily to Trump, setting up what I would politely suggest is a draconian culture of surveillance on what should be a public campus
